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Instead, many used a scenario approach to conclude that solitary sessile polyps represent the ancestral cnidarian form.
With a worldwide fauna of at least 15,000 species, poriferans are among the most diverse of sessile marine taxa.
All are tree Euphorbias, have minute sessile leaves and yellowish cyathia but differ in other respects.
The leaves are cuneate oblong or linear oblong and either sessile or amplexicaul.
The objective of the study was to evaluate the utility of retroflexion for removal of large sessile colon polyps.
Half of the field will be planted with native ash, along with cherry, rowan and hazel trees, sessile oaks and downy birches.
Crinoids, together with brachiopods, dominated the Paleozoic sessile benthos.
The zoaea larva can be recognized by the flattened blade at the end of the telson, the smooth rostrum and the sessile eyes.
Plants are sessile organisms that had to develop strategies to adapt rapidly to changes in environmental conditions.
Plants are sessile, autotrophic, and grow in an indeterminate and modular manner.
Most starfish are predators, feeding on sessile or slow-moving prey such as mollusks and barnacles.
Most studies of invertebrate larval metamorphosis have been performed with species that are sedentary or sessile as adults.
Epizoic barnacles are sessile, marine crustaceans and constitute a model system featuring the above conditions.
Alternatively, competent larvae of many sessile invertebrate species do not progress toward metamorphosis if stimulatory cues are absent.
Most radially symmetric animals are sessile, however, echinoderms are able to move.
It frequently occurs in the lower uterine segment and may be either sessile or pedunculated.
The genus is about equally divided into two subgenera, those with pedicellate flowers and those with sessile flowers.
The tumors were described as pedunculated or sessile polypoid nodules or as cauliflower-like masses projecting into the lumen of the gallbladder.
It continues to grow with a dome shape, but it can be sessile or pedunculated.
We illustrate the method by considering the density of acorns fallen under a sessile oak during one season.
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A very common species, very variable in form, stipitate forms occuring anon beside those which are irregular and sessile.
Sometimes the stamen has no filament, and the anther is then said to be sessile.
The Bryozoa are another and lower branch of the primitive active organisms which have adopted a sessile life.
The upper leaves are entire and sessile, while the lower are toothed and stalked.
An elongated flower-cluster having sessile flowers upon an unbranched axis.
Flowers sessile, verticillate, on the ends of several very long peduncles which rise from the midst of the petioles.
The variety papulatum is subrotund, sessile, papillose and pulverulent, the warts being nearly uniform in size.
The specimens collected were sessile and the pileus lateral, somewhat broadened at the free end, or petaloid.
Involucres sessile, obconic or pyriform, perforated at the apex, continuous with the thallus at base.
The stem is slender and carbonous and bears the carbonous fruit bodies, superficial, but sessile and globose.
The ovary is sessile, that is, it directly rests upon the main stem, and is usually three to five celled.
In the Stylasteridae sessile gonophores are formed, always by budding from the coenosarc.
This plant is sessile or nearly so, growing on the ground in dense clusters.
When either the flowers or the clusters are without stems, they are said to be sessile.
The sporangia in the same cluster are stipitate and sessile, ovoid and spherical.
Leaves or leaflets are sessile when they have no stems, and petiolate when they have stems.
Comparing the pedunculated and sessile Cirripedes, it is, I think, impossible to assign them a higher rank than that of Families.
Linnus, as is well known, included under this genus both the pedunculated and sessile Cirripedes.
Sporangia always sessile, simple and regular or plasmodiocarp, sometimes united into an thalium.
Examination revealed a firm, rubbery, non-tender 3 x 2x 2cm sessile swelling with no induration or ulceration.
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